Brian Kosoff

Brian Kosoff

My interest in photography and art started in my mid teens. My high school had a great art program, especially in sculpture and while I had some interest in photography at the time I was just as interested in sculpture.

In my junior year of high school I was accepted to attend the School of Visual Arts in New York City. I was still considering sculpture as my main study so I was not sure if my major would be fine art or photography. The answer became clear when in my last year of high school I enrolled in an internship program that allowed me to assist some NYC advertising and magazine photographers. I loved the work. It was all about problem solving, coming up with creative solutions and creating beauty.

Having found assisting photographers to be more worthwhile, I dropped out of SVA in my second year to assist photographers both full time and freelance while also pursuing assignments and other opportunities. At eighteen I was already shooting assignments for the Village Voice, a NY newspaper, and had my first solo NY gallery exhibition. By age twenty I had already photographed on assignment for national magazines, my work even appearing on their covers. Within a year I had a photo studio in Manhattan where I eventually specialized in still life.

I continued producing photographs for magazines and ad agencies and in 1998 I decided to go west and shoot some landscape as a vacation. While I was ill prepared at that time for such work nevertheless I loved it and started to produce a portfolio of landscape photographs. In 2001 at my wife’s urging I joined a local gallery and had a show, the reaction was far better than I could have imagined and was I encouraged to show my work to galleries in Manhattan, within a week I had gallery representation.

Then I made a big change. At the end of 2002, after twenty-five years of producing photographs for advertising and editorial clients I closed my studio so that I could devote myself full time to my personal photography.

My work has appeared in more than 40 exhibitions.

Roadside Memorial

Roadside Memorial

Posts

Posts

Mars Descending

Mars Descending

Lone Pine Peak

Lone Pine Peak

First Light Dune

First Light Dune

Chain Link Fence

Chain Link Fence

Artist’s Statement

By Logan Norton|2018-01-04T16:50:12+00:00July 23rd, 2017|Comments Off on Brian Kosoff